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Global Population Crash Isn't Sci-Fi Anymore (www.bloomberg.com)
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Just over half of Americans over the age of 65 are earning under $30,000 a year, and it shows how stark the retirement crisis is (www.businessinsider.com)
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Robotics startup Covariant just unveiled RFM-1, an AI platform that brings ChatGPT-like language understanding and reasoning to physical robots. (www.siliconrepublic.com)
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South Korean startup Hydrol AI launched a $1,800 AI-powered companion doll aimed at alleviating loneliness among the country's rapidly aging population. (www.ajudaily.com)
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Researchers with the Arc Institute, a new nonprofit research organization, have published Evo, a foundation model "that enables prediction and generation tasks from the molecular to genome scale." (arcinstitute.org)
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An OpenAI spinoff is using LLMs to train robots (www.technologyreview.com)
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Venture capital firm Battery Ventures says new businesses that are replacing human workers with AI are already dramatically out-performing those that don't. (news.crunchbase.com)
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Public trust in AI is sinking across the board (www.axios.com)
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Read discussion on Hacker News here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39616302

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AI deepfakes are poised to enter court proceedings (www.cnbc.com)
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The Singularity — When We Merge With AI — Won’t Happen (mindmatters.ai)
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Scientists Just Found Something Dark About Men Who Want to Have Sex With Robots (futurism.com)
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‘Epigenetic’ editing cuts cholesterol in mice - Changes to chemical tags on DNA in mice dial down the activity of a gene without cuts to the genome. (www.nature.com)
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Scientists successfully 3D bioprinted skin during live operations on rats, marking a significant leap in medical technology. (www.psu.edu)
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Shares in French company Teleperformance, which employs 410,000 worldwide in customer support roles, plunge 23% in one day on fears it's customers will abandon it for AI. (www.cnbc.com)
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Research on 1,000 students in Ghana has shown those using an AI assistant had a "large" improvement in their Math grades. [PDF, 9 pages] (arxiv.org)
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Marshall McLuhan, famous as a futurist in the 1970s, seems uncannily accurate in how he predicted the world of the 2020s. (www.thefp.com)
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Trust in AI is declining across the world. (thehill.com)
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The world’s biggest EV maker is rewriting the rules of batteries. China’s BYD is betting big on sodium ion cells. (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Scientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? The effort to give robots AI brains is revealing big practical challenges—and bigger ethical concerns (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Google launches Claude 3 and says its more powerful than GPT-4. (www.cnbc.com)
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What’s next for robotaxis in 2024 - In addition to restoring public trust, robotaxi companies need to prove that their business models can compete with Uber and taxis. (www.technologyreview.com)
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When anyone anywhere can easily make TV & movies, will America lose its greatest source of soft power - exporting its culture via Hollywood? (futurology.today)
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A combination of millions of people with production skills in California, and a huge domestic market able to spend billions has fuelled one of America's biggest exports - TV & Movies. They're not the biggest exports in dollar amounts, petroleum brings in almost 50 times more, but they give America something else apart from money - soft power via an outsized place in global cultural consciousness.

What happens when that sharply recedes? Soft power isn't as easily counted as the size of aircraft carriers or the number of missiles, but its effects are real.

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Germany's largest telecom company, Deutsche Telekom, says AI will render apps on phones obsolete and is launching a high-end smartphone with only an AI interface. (www.verdict.co.uk)
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Google Is Paying Publishers to Test an Unreleased Gen AI Platform. In exchange for a five-figure sum, publishers must use the tool to publish 3 stories per day. (www.adweek.com)
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German researchers have turned a fiber optic cable into a computational device that runs some AI models, using only light, better than silicon chips. (www.techradar.com)
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